Download or read book Beale s Treasure a Freemason s Tale written by Dan Mento and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beale Treasure Story written by Stephen M. Matyas (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents new facts and suppositions on the Beale treasure story.
Download or read book The Beale Treasure written by Peter Viemeister and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beale Ciphers Treasure Hunt Or Elaborate Prank written by ANONYMOUS and published by THE PUBLISHER. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beale Papers written by George L. Hart, Sr. and published by Beale Cipher Library. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume follows a historical account of two brothers, George Hart (1874-1968) and Clayton Hart (1876-1949), who attempted to decipher the infamous cipher texts known as the Beale Papers. The ciphers, alleged to provide the secrets of a treasure buried somewhere in the county of Bedford, Virginia, were authored by a mysterious figure named Thomas Jefferson Beale who led a hunting party of thirty men to New Mexico. But when they happened upon a gold mine amassing a fortune, they traded some of the gold to obtain silver and jewels, transported their loot back to Virginia in two shipments, and buried it for safe keeping in November 1819 and December 1821. The three cipher texts are alleged to detail the contents of the treasure, the instructions to locate the treasure, and a list of heirs to which portions of the treasure should be distributed. Only one of the three cipher texts were ever solved by using the Declaration of Independence as a key, detailing the contents of the treasure. Despite the publicity the papers received since their publication, none have come forward with the solution. Included in this volume is the text from an 1885 pamphlet attributed to J.B. Ward, detailing The Beale papers, and the narrative of George L. Hart, providing additional history and research that he and his brother discovered in search of the treasure between 1898 and 1922. The typeset manuscript was printed and submitted to the Roanoke Library in 1964 and is now published for the first time.
Download or read book The Beale Papers Containing Authentic Statements Regarding the Treasure Buried in 1819 and 1821 Near Bufords in Bedford County Virginia Dodo Press written by Thomas Beale and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold and silver estimated to be worth over 30 million US dollars in the present time. The other two ciphertexts allegedly describe the content of the treasure, and list the names of the treasure's owners' next of kin, respectively. The story of the three ciphertexts originates from an 1885 pamphlet detailing treasure being buried by a man named Thomas Jefferson Beale in a secret location in Virginia in 1820. Beale entrusted the box containing the encrypted messages with a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss and then disappeared, never to be seen again. The innkeeper gave the three encrypted ciphertexts to a friend before he died. The friend then spent the next twenty years of his life trying to decode the messages, and was able to solve only one of them which gave details of the treasure buried and the general location of the treasure. Since the publication of the pamphlet, a number of attempts have been made to decode the two remaining ciphertexts and to find the treasure, but all have resulted in failure.
Download or read book Beale Treasure Cipher Success written by Stan Clayton and published by Fastprint Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proves there are messages in the Beale Treasure Location Code and it gives the first genuine method for decoding them. See for yourself. It's obvious the keys to decode are embedded in the code numbers themselves. Just add the code number digits
Download or read book The Secret Mission of Thomas Jefferson Beale written by Larry C. Hinson and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson Beale was a man of mystery, a born leader, an adventurer--and the love child of President Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress, Sally Hemings. In a unique combination of fact and fiction, Hinson sets the stage for his exciting revelations about the legend of Beale's buried treasure.
Download or read book Solving the Beale Papers written by Paul G. Stewart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Solving the Beale Papers" proves one of the world's most famous unsolved cipher mysteries does not lead to a buried treasure but instead contains a series complex Masonic allegories, written in celebration of unique events which occurred within Freemasonry between 1880 and 1883.
Download or read book The Secret written by Byron Preiss and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.
Download or read book Beale Treasure Story written by Stephen M. Matyas (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Further background on the Beale treasure story.
Download or read book The Beale Papers written by James Ward and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First printed in 1885, this is pamphlet is a restored facsimile-reproduction of the original historic tract entitled The Beale Papers. These papers were the center of a controversial claim, wherein a narrative describes the origins of a treasure, amounting to a modern estimate of $20 million, that was buried somewhere in the Virginian county of Bedford in 1819 and enlarged again with another deposit in 1821. The narrative speaks of a mysterious figure named Thomas Jefferson Beale who left these papers with his innkeeper after some short visits and was never heard from again. The numeric cyphers within, once decoded, are said to provide the precise location of the treasure; since believed to be in the foothills of Blue Ridge Mountains. These cyphers have been challenged by several prominent researchers, cryptologists, mathematicians, and historians since they were first made public. Genealogists too have endeavored to discover the identity of their author and, in the mid 1900s, The Beale Cypher Association was developed to both conduct research on and compile a library of reports and memoranda concerning the cyphers. David Khan, author of Codebreakers, declared in 1972 his belief that the papers were an elaborate hoax. Yet in 2001, a Freedom of Information Act request lead to the declassification of a plethora of reports and studies of The Beale Papers, held by National Security Agency (NSA).Though with all the controversy and fame brought to this story in centuries past, none have alluded to its discovery. Even to this modern day, none have been able to come publicly forward to legitimately provide the solution to the riddle within, nor give proof that the treasure has been claimed. Are these cyphers an unbreakable code without the required key? Are the papers simply a centuries old American hoax meant to attract tourism to the county? or, turn a profit in pamphlet sales? Whatever the truth of the matter is, this document is a mysterious piece of early American history that is enveloped with such obscurity that hundreds, if not thousands of men, have dedicated decades of their life to solving the puzzle, or searching within the wilderness of Bedford County, with the small yet lingering hope that they with discover the Beale Treasure.
Download or read book The Code Book The Secrets Behind Codebreaking written by Simon Singh and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As gripping as a good thriller." --The Washington Post Unpack the science of secrecy and discover the methods behind cryptography--the encoding and decoding of information--in this clear and easy-to-understand young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that's perfect for this age of WikiLeaks, the Sony hack, and other events that reveal the extent to which our technology is never quite as secure as we want to believe. Coders and codebreakers alike will be fascinated by history's most mesmerizing stories of intrigue and cunning--from Julius Caesar and his Caeser cipher to the Allies' use of the Enigma machine to decode German messages during World War II. Accessible, compelling, and timely, The Code Book is sure to make readers see the past--and the future--in a whole new way. "Singh's power of explaining complex ideas is as dazzling as ever." --The Guardian
Download or read book Strange Tales from Virginia s Mountains written by Denver Michaels and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the mysterious side of Virginia with these strange tales of Bigfoot, buried treasure, phantom dogs, UFOs, ghosts, and more. The stunning mountains of Virginia offer spectacular views and endless outdoor activities, yet they also hold secrets. A nineteenth-century cache of gold is buried in the hills. Nine-foot giants once walked the ridges, pre-Columbian explorers built homes on isolated mountaintops and a ghost town lies deep in the Jefferson National Forest. The mountains conceal canines that walk upright, black panthers and a resurgent mountain lion population. The hide-and-seek champion of the world, Bigfoot, lurks in the dark hollows, phantom dogs pace the back roads and aggressive monkeys swing through the trees. UFOs crisscross the skies, and ghosts haunt the caverns below. Join Denver Michaels, local author and explorer of the unexplained, as he explores these mysteries and many more.
Download or read book The Beale Treasure written by Peter Viemeister and published by Hamilton. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West by Sea written by Michelle Beale and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle refused to let a cancerous brain tumor end her dreams, so she boarded a ship for 105 epic days of adventure. Follow her on this inspiring journey around the world. Along the way, decode clues to locate an engraved object that is hidden somewhere on planet Earth. Can you solve the treasure hunt and claim the prize? As you read this travelogue you will circumnavigate the globe by ship. The journal is 144 pages of full color and contains flip movies, encoded riddles, puzzles, hundreds of small photographs from around the world, and 105 quotes and short stories that touch 40 ports in 28 countries on 6 continents. It is a great gift for anyone who loves geography, and will be a beautiful addition to your travel library.
Download or read book The American Black Chamber written by Herbert O. Yardley and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s Herbert O. Yardley was chief of the first peacetime cryptanalytic organization in the United States, the ancestor of today's National Security Agency. Funded by the U.S. Army and the Department of State and working out of New York, his small and highly secret unit succeeded in breaking the diplomatic codes of several nations, including Japan. The decrypts played a critical role in U.S. diplomacy. Despite its extraordinary successes, the Black Chamber, as it came to known, was disbanded in 1929. President Hoover's new Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson refused to continue its funding with the now-famous comment, "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." In 1931 a disappointed Yardley caused a sensation when he published this book and revealed to the world exactly what his agency had done with the secret and illegal cooperation of nearly the entire American cable industry. These revelations and Yardley's right to publish them set into motion a conflict that continues to this day: the right to freedom of expression versus national security. In addition to offering an exposé on post-World War I cryptology, the book is filled with exciting stories and personalities.
